{"product_id":"camille-and-other-plays-9780809007066b","title":"Camille and Other Plays","description":"In this classic anthology of French drama, Stephen S. Stanton has assembled the nineteenth century's finest \"well-made plays\":\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e The Glass of Water\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eA Peculiar Position\u003c\/span\u003e by Eugene Scribe;\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e Camille \u003c\/span\u003eby Alexander Dumas fils; \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eOlympe's Marriage\u003c\/span\u003e by Emile Augier; \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eA Scrap of Paper\u003c\/span\u003e by Victorien Sardou. In an incisive introduction, Stanton fully diagrams these works and their seminal influence on modern theater. Whether Dumas's risqué study of courtesan love in \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eCamille\u003c\/span\u003e, or Augier's counterattack on the dangers of sentimentalizing such passions in\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e Olympe's Marriage\u003c\/span\u003e, these plays not only brilliantly evoke Second Empire and Third Republic French culture but also introduce domestic themes and theatrical devices that have influenced Western drama for the last one hundred and fifty years.","brand":"Hill \u0026 Wang","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42826014457936,"sku":"9780809007066B","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780809007066-l.jpg?v=1785903687","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/camille-and-other-plays-9780809007066b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}